Historical May 1987 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
On Sunday, March 29, the Delmar Baptist Church celebrated its 110th anniversary with a special speaker, a dinner for 150, and the first congregational photograph taken in thirty-nine years. Dr. Adrian Lamkin, director of the Missouri Baptist Historical Commission and a professor in church history at William Jewell College, spoke to the adult classes of the Church School on the subject of Baptists in Missouri and the Delmar Church’s history in particular.
During the worship service he delivered a sermon entitled “Our History: Recalled, Accepted, and Pursued.” The Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council and the neighboring Grace Methodist Church sent representatives to acknowledge the anniversary and flowers to brighten the sanctuary and its worshippers. Delmar’s current location, at Skinker and Washington, is its fourth home in St. Louis.
The original building was on Garrison Avenue near Lucas.
Two subsequent buildings have been on Delmar Boulevard, at Spring Street and at Pendleton.
The last sixty-nine years, however, since 1918, the church has met and worshipped in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, serving the community at the same time.
A charter member of the Community Council, Delmar housed the Council’s offices for a year-and-a-half in 1985 and 1986. Its current neighborhood ministries include a recreation time in the church gym for neighborhood children after school, a basketball team recruited from local high-schoolers that has won the Metro Baptist Basketball League for three years straight, a weekly luncheon group of the neighborhood’s senior adults, and a summer camp managed in cooperation with Grace Methodist and the Hamilton Community School.
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The congregation of Delmar Baptist Church on the occasion of the church’s 110th anniversary. The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1987, page 2. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1987.
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